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I liked Perkins's other horror films, but this one was a huge disappointment. I seem to be in a tiny minority on this. However, the person who cut the trailer is an artist.
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Could be, but not necessarily. I don't know if Bluesky's really at the level where corporations would put in that effort. A lot of people make burners to say the things they know will draw blocks.
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You know America didn't end up with the worst system imaginable by chance, so why would you think it can be changed by reasonable means? Obama's govt had the opportunity to end health insurance and they refused because "jobs would be lost". Your systems tolerate industrial theft and slaughter.
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Do I believe in the law as applied to CEOs? Give me a minute here
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They'd be as bad if the deaths were 1:1 and equally painful. Instead, the deaths on one side were enormous in number and torturous in length while the count on the other was one quick death. Also, one of them did it for profit.
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Nice try, Kaiser Permanente
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It is impossible to earn billions, and therefore there are no good billionaires. Either they stole that money from us in their lifetimes, or inheritance handed them previously stolen billions which they decided to keep. A good level of taxation would make them billionaires no longer.
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"White dude"?
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This pear looks like it's telling ghost stories
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It's the idea of football being invented by someone called Michael Football, combined with the trope of threads to alert people about a beloved figure's less-known controversies, mixed with the idea of cancelling football as a consequence. I don't think I can make it funny for you by explaining it.
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Nobody. The joke was the vital part. If you put it aside, this whole thing fails
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It was created by David Shrigley, an artist with an intentionally comedic, child-like style. He usually makes things like this:
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Ahmad has social media that predates the war in Gaza, many unique photos and videos, is the brother of Saed who I’ve shared before. He’s also been in contact with many people from Bluesky. He recently had to start a new GoFundMe because of a problem the organizer had. If you can help please do ❤️
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The most baffling "No! *My* lunch" scene I have ever beheld
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Biden deported more people than Trump. Trump is evil and his plans with ICE are evil, but why are you suddenly making Nazi Germany comparisons if you weren't saying the same of Biden?
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Like when him and Lammy are human rights lawyers who deny genocide, you mean?
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They're black because they're carbon fibres, exhibited by only the sturdiest of bellies. You'll outlive us all.
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What in the Aardman Animations
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What does this have to do with eggs?
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If they seriously wanted to cut benefits, they would bring in heavy rent controls to slash housing benefit costs (and rein in house prices into the bargain).
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Anti-corruption minister
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They're capitalists who grudgingly accept a minimum of modified versions of socialist ideas in order to save their capitalism from driving itself off the cliff
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Must be getting cold, given it was made in 2017
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Tanith Lee's "Israbel" is possibly my favourite vampire story ever. It's full of excellent spins on the fixtures of vampire stories, and the only note of horror is in the ending — and it's got nothing to do with humans being prey, but something much bigger and cleverer
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Here's one version gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...
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*Loping gait, fucking autocorrect
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The folk tale, "The Croglyn Vampire". Many versions (comes from oral tradition) but key details in common: ancient skin, like crumpled brown leather; long fingernail scrapes lead around windows, allowing the claw to flip the latch; its looping gait as it runs to its graveyard home after feeding.
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The infant mortality rate in the US is 140% of the rate in the UK. The American private healthcare system does not care more about babies, and it does the opposite of saving more babies.
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Yes, it does. I don't know why you're so hung up on the rejection of hopeless cases, which even a fully private system will do, rather than the enormous number of preventable deaths that private systems allow to happen, or the lives that get ruined with debt and all the knock-on effects thereof.
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No.
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Private healthcare routes were open to those parents, if they could raise the money, which is the same cruel quandary facing parents in the USA. Of course, many parents in that situation want to delay their grief, but arguably there shouldn't be a way to buy that if it's also paid in a child's agony
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Those babies had bigger problems. Millions of people owe their lives to genuine life-saving NHS care when they were babies. My friend's twins were born extremely premature, many severe issues. They got the best care free, which would have cost well over $1m in the US, and live 100% healthy lives now
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On that point, there is a lot of pressure from US health companies to dismantle the NHS entirely and open the UK as a market for them. Lots of politicians in the UK have campaign funding from these US firms, just like US politicians do. This is predatory stuff, and they don't care about those kids.
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< and then exploits suffering parents via emotive stories in the tabloid media.
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The UK doesn't call it "universal". NHS care is intended to be free at the point of service, and consultation is open to all. That doesn't mean you can have anything you want, no matter the safety, the cost or the evidence for the treatment. US private healthcare develops iffy new medical tech >
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I guess you're talking about Italy, in the case of Indi Gregory? Judges ruled against that. The others could have sought experimental treatment in the USA, which the NHS was not going to pay for; those providers should pay if they want test patients. You call it "life-saving care" but it was not.
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Those are cases where the babies had severe organ damage already, with no shot of living past infanthood. Healthcare isn't just fixing people. It also needs to be considered if the application of healthcare is in itself cruel; will it succeed, or just prolong suffering until an inevitable death?
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"Leave it, Gary. He's not worth it"
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And you know very well that Starmer has never been shy to wade in on what, for instance, Russia does and declare what it is
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It's a legal term satisfied from every sub-definition: in deadly force, forcible transfer, destruction of culture, etc. If your concern is that he shouldn't prejudice a trial or a negotiation, he did so by saying in parliament that what's happening in Gaza is not genocide by definition of law.
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He outright said in the Commons that there's no genocide in Gaza. In November. Just as one example. If you met someone who denied a holocaust, would you want them as a friend? Why as a prime minister?
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I don't think it's the graphics per se. It's the misery. They get the movie tools to make movie-like experiences, but they're not good at it. So they churn out those same route #1 stories: tragic son/daughter, tragic dad, epic fight against The System. It's hard to sell people on nothing but misery.